This just caught my attention, given my post from a month and a half ago:
Krugman says he found himself in the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, especially the “Foundation” series—”It was nerds saving civilization, quants who had a theory of society, people writing equations on a blackboard, saying, ‘See, unless you follow this formula, the empire will fail and be followed by a thousand years of barbarism’.”
I guess we’re all looking to save the world, all trying to plan our own First Foundation. Of course, Paul Krugman has some very different ideas about how to go about it (that, and a Nobel Prize [grumble, grumble, all just a big popularity contest, grumble, grumble...]). At least they’re not as bad as Shoka Asahara’s.
I would say that there is a good chance you are planning your own First Foundation, from reading your blog.
Of course, the First Foundation was a militaristic cabal prone to corruption, who only succeeded in any way thanks to the Second Foundation. Who do you think will be your Second Foundation?